On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 5:04 PM 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List < [email protected]> wrote:
>> It doesn't say that anywhere in the constitution, and these days a >> soldier can have weapons other than assault rifles. > > > * > He can have a grenade. He can't have a machine gun...a machine gun is > assigned to a two man crew; same with a sniper rifle.* > I don't know where you got that "*one man must carry it not **2 *" definition of "*arms*", you seem to have pulled it out of thin air, it certainly doesn't say anything like that in the constitution. And besides, the SADM nuclear landmine was specifically designed to be carried and activated by just one man. >> A nuclear bomb had been developed in the 1950s that was small enough to >> be carried by one man, it was called the W54 warhead and weighed 56 pounds >> and had the explosive force of 1000 tons of TNT. It was supposed to be >> deployed as a sort of nuclear landmine. So does the second amendment >> allow Walmarts to sell nuclear bombs next to the shotguns in its stores? >> >> Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_demolition_munition> > > > > * > See what you did there. You tried for a reductio ad absurdum, by > missing the point ''Functionally, "arms" meant what a soldier carried'' > They had cannon and warships in 1787 too...but they weren't called "arms".* > In 1787 the people that made cannons and warships were called arms manufacturers and that hasn't changed. It may be absurd but that's the world we live in because nuclear weapons are called "arms'', remember the SALT talks from the 1970s, the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks? They were about the reduction in the number of nuclear weapons manufactured by the US and USSR. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv1RkHr4zQXmGCeZyqQZxDEwjm13tTFtC21BeQ1pUx2BWw%40mail.gmail.com.
